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ASJA
 Hiring a custom content writer can feel a bit like hiring a gunslinger in the old west. You'll have a lot of potential applicants. Some will have lots of experience, and lots will have a little. But the business is so new there are no real standards. Very few people are likely to have done exactly what you want. And if you're not careful the process can misfire. This guide will help you sort the sharp shooters from the wannabes.
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ASJA
The deadline is just four weeks away for winter 2015 applications for the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism. An initiative launched in early 2014 at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, the McGraw Fellowships provide accomplished journalists with the resources and editorial support to do deeply-reported stories on critical issues related to U.S. business and the global economy.
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Sally Olds, ASJA
 On Sept. 29 a free-wheeling conversation took place at New York City's Housing Works Bookstore Café with four authors of challenged books. ASJA is a sponsor of Banned Books Week, an outgrowth of our first campaign against book banning in 1982.
This year's Banned Books Week's theme was Young Adult books, the most censored category. David Shipler, author of Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword, moderated the discussion with David Levithan, author of Two Boys Kissing; Meg Medina, author of Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass; and Coe Booth, author of Kinda Like Brothers. The discussion focused on each author's experience being banned or challenged, and the importance of free and open access to all books, especially for young adult readers.
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Publishers Weekly
It's been almost 10 years since Bill Gourgey took what he calls the "less traveled self-publishing road" with his poetry collection Outside the Box. Back then, there were no e-readers, social media was brand new, and self-publishing was still viewed as taboo. Today, of course, that's not the case, and Gourgey's even received an inquiry about movie rights for Glide, his sci-fi trilogy. Publishers Weekly gave positive reviews to all three books in the series, awarding the second installment, NuLogic: Rise of the Neos, a star and calling it "fascinating and thought-provoking."
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Writers Write
Pacing in dialogue is like fuel-injection for your writing. Have you ever noticed how you start reading quicker when you get to dialogue in a story? It's a great way of showing and not telling — and allows your characters to "act" out a scene.
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Writer's Digest
Congratulations! You finished your first book. Work-wise, you’ve accomplished 10 percent. Now for the hard part: doing what’s required to get your book into a reader's hands. Do you know that an unknown self-published or small-press author only sells an average of up to 250 books? Once your friends and family members have purchased copies, where do you go from there?
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The Washington Post
Dagny Taggart spends her time traveling the globe, meeting new people and learning new things. She speaks more than 15 languages, including Latin, Russian and Chinese. In the past year, she has written a new book at the rate of about one every five days: 84 books in total. All of them have gotten glowing reviews from her hordes of Amazon groupies, who leave 5-star reviews on everything she does. There's only one problem with Dagny Taggart — she doesn't exist.
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MediaShift
In recent years, journalism schools everywhere have been scrambling to teach data journalism and visualization to address the burgeoning demand from newsrooms trying to help the public understand a transformed world that The New York Times has described as "awash in numbers."
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Digital Book World
Thousands of writers use our sales tool, Selz, to sell their ebooks, so we analyzed the sales of those in the top 10th percentile to find out how they are so successful. Here are the five most common tools used by our top sellers to drive sales.
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